Research suggests that parents who spank their children usually administer spanking
a. as a last resort after other punishments have failed.
b. for trivial offenses.
c. for serious rule violations.
d. in public places.
a
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Programmers who were working on a chess-playing supercomputer asked a psychologist from their university for some help in working out the problem-solving algorithms they would be using. The psychologist who helped with this project was MOST likely
a. a behavioral psychologist. b. a humanistic psychologist. c. a biological psychologist. d. a cognitive psychologist.
For operant conditioning to work, reinforcers must be given each and every time the individual performs the behavior
: Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
In recent research on locus of control, Krause found that elderly people with a:
a. stronger sense of God-mediated control tended to have a greater sense of self-worth and life satisfaction b. stronger sense of God-mediated control had higher levels of death anxiety c. poor self concept did not believe in God d. good sense of external control believed in several Gods
Chomsky's language acquisition device (LAD) refers to
A) instructional techniques for children with speech and language delays. B) speech programs that parents can use to teach their children grammatical rules. C) computer programs that attempt to generate the linguistic rules that are needed for language acquisition. D) an innate system that permits children to combine words into grammatically consistent, novel utterances.